Dictionaries :: Shake

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Shake:

"to agitate, shake," primarily of the action of stormy winds, waves, etc., is used

(a) literally, of a reed, Mat 11:7; Luk 7:24; a vessel, "shaken" in filling, Luk 6:38; a building, Luk 6:48; Act 4:31; 16:26; the natural forces of the heavens and heavenly bodies, Mat 24:29; Mar 13:25; Luk 21:26; the earth, Hbr 12:26, "shook;"

(b) metaphorically,

(1) of "shaking" so as to make insecure, Hbr 12:27 (twice);

(2) of casting down from a sense of security, Act 2:25, "I should (not) be moved;"

(3) to stir up (a crowd), Act 17:13;

(4) to unsettle, 2Th 2:2, "(to the end that) ye be not (quickly) shaken (from your mind)," i.e., from their settled conviction and the purpose of heart begotten by it, as to the return of Christ before the Day of the Lord begins; the metaphor may be taken from the loosening of a ship from its moorings by a storm.
See MOVE, STIR.

Shake:

"to shake to and fro," is rendered "to shake" in Mat 28:4, AV; Hbr 12:26, AV; Rev 6:13, AV and RV; see MOVE, No. 3.

Shake:

"to shake off" (apo, "from," tinasso, "to shake"), is used in Luk 9:5, of dust from the feet; Act 28:5, of a viper from the hand. In the Sept., Jdg 16:20; 1Sa 10:2; Lam 2:7.

Shake:

"to shake out," is used of "shaking off" the dust from the feet, Mat 10:14; Mar 6:11; Act 13:51; of "shaking out" one's raiment, Act 18:6.